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horizontal bars

n. (plural of horizontal bar English)

Usage examples of "horizontal bars".

The only sanitation facility was an open metal mesh, supported by close-set horizontal bars, in the bottom of the cages, beneath which, some five feet below, was a cement floor, washed down and cleaned by slaves once daily.

Tars Tarkas went in advance and as I reached the first of the horizontal bars I drew the ladder up after me and, handing it to him, he carried it a hundred feet further aloft, where he wedged it safely between one of the bars and the side of the shaft.

Cully lost the vertical stripes of his first year's plumage and became grayer, grimmer, madder, and distinguished by smart horizontal bars where the long stripes had been.

That may be told by the stylized yellow kaiila print, outlined in red, on the flanks of his beast, over the red horizontal bars.

The bars were at least six inches apart, and there were two horizontal bars that crossed also.

Now he would require total concentration as he lowered the Harrier's nose towards the peaceful cloudscape below, the horizontal bars on the HUD sliding upwards to show he had the aircraft in a ten degree dive.

Short horizontal bars scattered in no obvious pattern reinforced the strength of the barrier.

Beyond, she discerned a chassis, bolted upright to the whitewashed wall, and again she froze: the horizontal bars were ladened with an array of whips, riding crops, quirts, sagging hoods of leather and bewildering rows of instruments and tackle.

The sun had already gone below the horizon and the west was flaming gold, touched with some horizontal bars of purple and crimson.

If I could but remove two, at most three, of the uprights, and one of the horizontal bars, I could get myself through.

He stepped into a very large room filled with angular structures: horizontal bars, vertical rods, enormous boxes seemingly formed of staffs tied together at right angles.

But there was no mistaking the black-and-green star centered between three horizontal bars--the chevrons of an American military aircraft.

The symbol directly in front of Burton was two horizontal bars crossed by two longer vertical bars.